New Beginnings
03 Jul 2010 Leave a Comment
in Children, death of a loved one, environment, grief counseling, health care, Lifestyles, love, relationships, spiritual growth
My Boy
Hi Folks
Sorry about the silence but I saw no point in writing about nothing.
My new beginnings are gradually taking shape; after 3 months of being in my new home, getting accustomed to the house, sharing and finding my way around the bus system I have made one of my most important goals come to fruition.
For a very long time I had planned on starting a discussion group.
I eventually got around to placing an ad in our local free newspaper, in the announcements column. I had no idea what kind of reaction I would get, if any. I was very encouraged after 1 week’s ad I received several inquiries from interested individuals.
The group is due to start on Tuesday, July 13th at 6.00pm. I am excited to say there are several people who are due to attend. The other goals were to join, or re-join an art association/club and other group. This I have also done and I’m happy to say some of the members of the other groups are planning on attending my new discussion group.
It all seems to be coming together quite well. I even have a friend down the road from me who Ben and I go to the river with every other day. This friend has even begun to give me some paid editing work which is working out well for both of us. And now we are trading expertise. I am doing his editing and he is doing a couple of jobs for me here at the house. It seems to be working well for both of us.
The discussion group went well on Tuesday with eleven people in attendance. Some of them were friends from other groups, some were unknown to me except for a brief telephone conversation beforehand. It was a nice mix and even though at times I wasn’t sure how it was going, I had some good feedback as they were leaving.
I guess the real test will come next Tuesday when we are due to meet again; I will see how many returnees I get.
I’ve made a couple of new friends and I have nothing but positive feelings about my new beginning.
As an update on the discussion group, it seems to have fizzled down to 3 or 4 of us. I think this is pretty normal for these types of groups, however I also think I was so focused on not controlling the discussion, I went in the complete other direction and didn’t lead at all. I must find a way of starting the discussion on a topic and then letting it go. Hopefully that will take root!!
